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Test 10 · Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and…

Freya at Salisbury: "No face, no hands? Proper useless, that." Why was it still useful?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be

This is test 10 of lesson 122 «Clocks before clocks: sundials, water clocks, candles and hourglasses» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: Freya at Salisbury: "No face, no hands?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freya	Freya	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 face	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 Salisbury	case
3	Salisbury	Salisbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Freya	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 face	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 face	punct
6	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 face	det
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hands	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 hands	det
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 face	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 face	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Proper useless, that."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 useless	advmod
2	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 useless	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 useless	nsubj
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 useless	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 useless	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 3: Why was it still useful?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 useful	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 useful	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 useful	advmod
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it				still	useful property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It was never meant to tell the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 meant	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 meant	advmod
4	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	past · passive		It					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive					time		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It struck a bell for each hour, which anyone could count

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 count	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 count	nsubj
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 count	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 count	aux
12	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hour	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	It	a bell			hour		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient
2	count	could	each hour						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It showed the time by the colour of the bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 colour	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bell	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bell	det
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	It				time	by the colour of the bell	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It was only ever used by the few people who could read and write

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 used	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 used	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 used	advmod
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 people	det
8	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 used	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 read	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 read	aux
12	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 people	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 write	cc
14	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 read	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive	the few people	It			ever		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	read	could	the few people						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	write	infinitive	the few people not said here						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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